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Do XML namespaces apply to entity names, notation names, or processing instruction targets?

April 26, 2017entity instruction names namespaces notation targets XML

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Do XML namespaces apply to entity names, notation names, or processing instruction targets?

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No. XML namespaces apply only to element type and attribute names. Furthermore, in an XML document that conforms to the XML namespaces recommendation, entity names, notation names, and processing instruction targets must not contain colons.